How to Recover Saved Passwords in WinSCP

In this article, you’ll learn where WinSCP stores your FTP login passwords, how they are protected, and how you can easily recover them.

WinSCP Password Secrets

WinSCP stores all your FTP login passwords at following Registry location

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Martin Prikryl\Winscp 2\sessions

Below this Registry location, separate registry key is created for each FTP server configuration.

Here is the sample of exported Registry entry for one of FTP server configuration,

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Martin Prikryl\WinSCP 2\Sessions\xenarmor.com]
"HostName"="ftp.xenarmor.com"
"PortNumber"=dword:00000015
"UserName"="xenarmor"
"FSProtocol"=dword:00000005
"ProxyPort"=dword:00000000
"Password"="A35C7E528E72C8070C6A8472B1FF4FDC3D392E6A65726A687265687E642F3928292C6E6F68"

Here “HostName”, “UserName” & “Password” registry values refers to FTP server, username & encrypted password respectively.

WinSCP uses proprietary encoding algorithm to encrypt the FTP password using magic char (0xA3).

How to Recover WinSCP Passwords Automatically

Now you can easily recover all your forgotten FTP login passwords from “WinSCP” without any technical knowledge.

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